The Jefferson Project at Lake George - Creating a Global Model for Protecting One of the World's Natural Wonders

asmarterplanet.com - by Eric Siy and Dr. Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer - June 27, 2013

The Jefferson Project at Lake George, being launched today in Upstate New York, is the culmination of a generation’s work to understand the lake’s changing water quality and what it will take to protect it for the next generation.

The project will advance the “Legacy Strategy” of The FUND for Lake Gorge, a science-based advocacy group founded in 1980.  The Strategy was adopted last fall to stop documented declines in water quality as revealed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Margaret A. and David M. Darrin ’40 Fresh Water Institute (DFWI).

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